The university said it opened a review "in the light of concerns about the new penal code".
In a statement a spokeswoman said it was informed the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah would be returning his degree after it wrote to him last month.
More than 118,500 people have signed a petition calling on the university to rescind the honorary law degree, which was awarded in 1993.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe university launched a review of the degree, but said it did not have the right to "summarily rescind it"
Oxford MP Layla Moran also wrote to the university urging it to strip him of the degree, and said it being returned was "clearly not sufficient".
She said: "Oxford University now has a chance to redeem itself and move past being tied to such gross violations of human rights.
"I think it is best the university should undertake a thorough review of their honorary degree system to ensure a scandal like this doesn't happen again."
Previously the university said: "Just as nobody has a right to confer an honorary degree, nobody has a right summarily to rescind it."
The Sultan has defended the decision to adopt a strict new interpretation of Islamic laws, or Sharia.
In a speech he said although there would be a moratorium on the death penalty, the "merit" of the new laws would eventually become clear.
Homosexuality was already illegal in Brunei and punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
本書有中文本， The general topic of this volume is education on its intellectual side. One main idea runs through the various chapters, and it is illustrated in them from many points of view. It can be stated briefly thus: the students are alive, and the purpose of education is to stimulate and guide their self-development. It follows as a corollary from this premise, that the teachers also should be alive with living thoughts. The whole book is a protest against dead knowledge, that is to say, inert ideas. - Preface. Google Books可讀多場演講
The American education system turns out good swimmers and confident public speakers—but for subjects like maths and science, standards are much lower than in other developed countries. From The Economist’s 1843 magazine
終於，他在埃及找到了Islamic Art Museum at Doha 的啟示幾合堆疊綜合光之以時推移的
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The Mosque of Ibn Tulun
“That little building is a poem.”
“There is a mosque called Ibn Tulun. Inside the mosque is a big courtyard, and there is a little ablution fountain. It starts as a square inside another square, then an octagon, then a circle. It’s a small thing. The total height of that little ablution fountain could not be more than 60 or 70 feet, but because of that piling up of geometric forms, under the sun, it is magical. You walk around it, and it changes all the time. Therefore, my building learned from that building,” says Pei.
所以法國有龐畢度中心，密特朗總統的大盧浮/羅浮計畫，其遴選總設計師找上貝聿銘先生負責，就高層而言，容易點貝接受，可是"舉國"到處都是種族偏見，貝聿銘先生答應高層說，他可以接這案子(經過至少2周的緊密思考，在 First Person Single的紀錄片中，當時的博物館館長就看到貝聿銘在拿破崙廣場周邊低頭踱步......)
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